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Andy Marsh wrote:
>
> We are trying to set-up a server farm with the
> following configuration:
>
> Two load balancers
> 7 backend servers.
>
> The problem is as follows:
>
> We need client-server persistency, but cannot use
> cookies or IP addresses (our clients are behind
> very restrictive proxies/firewalls).
> We must allow balancing of the first request from
> the client, every subsequent request then being
> sent to the same server. Without using some form
> of URL redirection (make each backend server have
> all served pages have a specific url in them, eg.
> http://www.foo.com/server1/xxx/xfd/d) is there are
> way to do this?
Isn't this what the persistence flag of ipvsadm provides (persistence
for a short amount of time)? Or do you want that a client connects to
the same server for ever (e.g. a month or even a year later)?
In the latter case you should go with Lars answer.
Juri
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